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LETTER FROM RICHMOND.
Especial Cor. or the Alexandria GAzErrE.l


RICHMOND, May 23-The General AS
sembly will adjourn sine die tomorrow
The clerks are busy tonight preparing bills
to be presented to the Governor tomorrow
for his signature. Tho Governor is extreme
~ busy to day and will be 80 until tomor-
row at noon Tho speech delivered on the
floor of the Senate to-day would make far
better campaign document than will the re.
port of the debt commission. Mr. Massey g
statements were given in a very readable
shape, and his speech was first rate con-
densation of tho negotiations between the
debt commission and Sir Edward Thornton
and Mr.. Braithwaite The presence of the
Lieutenant Governor on the floor OF the
Senate as speaker was hy some considered
little out of place, but Senators who heard
him will profit from his remarks, IA hissp ch
was indeed good one. When Mr.. Massey
goes before the people next fall to advocate
the principles Of the democratic party
he will have some funny things TO tell about
Sir Edward Thornton which are better told
than read. Mr.. Massey distinctly remembers
some of Sir Edwards sayings and he can
use these with fine effect upon the stump.
It is reported at the Capitol that MIR. Massey
wants to be the next Governor and am told
that if there is the slightest chance for him
he will enter the roll for the United States
Senatorship. Some say if Mr.. Barbour is q
candidate Mr.. Massey will not allow his
name to be used. but will support Mr.. Bar
bour and afterwards work for the Governor
ship. In this connection l might add Hon.
IL, nry r. Pollard, of King and Queen, is
spoken of as probable candidate for Attor.
new General two years hence.
There was no opposition in thu Senate to
the resolution of sympathy for Ireland. A
copy of the resolution will be sent to Mr..
Gladstone tomorrow and Mr. Psrnell will
receive copy the next day. It will be
written in fine style, and the clerk of the
Senate hopes TO secure the signature of the
two distinguished statesmen.
Senator Heaton, of Loudoun. presented
to-day petition from Bernard p. Green, in
reference to payment for the services Of
Thomas Green, deceased who was at one
time distinguished Virginia lawyer. John
A. Parker, who / believe lives in Washing
ton. has fled a report in which he asks for
compensation for services rendered The
State in prosecuting claims against the ma
tional government. / have not been able
to learn what amount Mr.. Parker wished
the State to pay him, but know that the
petition which Mr.. Green has presented
will have the effect of killing every chance
Mr. Parker ever had of receiving pay
ment from the State for whatever services
he may have rendered in the years gone by
to the old Commonwealth. The petition of
Mr.. Green and the report of Mr.. Parker have
gone to committee, and will slumber to-
rether long after final adjournment.
B. P. O.
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Debf I.c-isIntion.

The coupon.crusher" was the most i'm
portant piece of coupon legislation adopted
at this session of the General Assembly. 1t
proceeds upon the theory that the United
States Supreme Court has decided that the
State may compel man using coupons to
prove their genuineness.
Another coupon bill'' which has become
a law makes it a misdemeanor for any one
to nse the same coupons twice in paying
taxes The same act also provides for the
keeping by collecting officers of "a record
of coupons rniporiing to have been Clipped
from bonds OF The State rendered for taxes.
Another bill makes it punishable for col.
Letting officers to receive coupons except
for Identification
Another act makes it felony for any one
to induce any other person to use COUPONS
twice, &c. There was also bill passed proyid.
ing that coupon broker, whether he does
business by mail or not, shall get separate
license for each county in which he operates
Another bill allows the Governor, in Ger.
tain cases, to suspend treasurers from Office
A joint resolution was adopted autboriz.
ing the Board of Indemnity to emnlov
counsel to assist the Attorney. General in
litigation growing out of the public debt
and aPpropriating $1,000 as salary.
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No. 81. U. :. CONSULATE, /,
HeNG KONG, Anil IS, 1887. !
Copy
No. 341.

Mr.. A. B. Clements, Ensign L. s. Nary, Ma
con, No:
Slr-I have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt of your letters of the 18Th February
and 81 March, with the accompanying cor
respondence, and accept your disclaimer rs
satisfactory cannot folbear submitting u
single remark On the passage in your IA
theirs letter characterizng the whole affair
as tempest in teapot" which hurt no
body. If to have ones personal and official
character denounced through the public
press from one end Of the country 10 The
other, to be specifically charged with drunk
enness, immortality, corruption, dishonesty
and tyranny, without shadow of founda-
ton for the nlegations-if these hurt no
body" l am at loss to conceive what
would constitute damage TO character.
must say that regard them as furnishing
sufficient reason for troubling you and thus pro
curing tho means of validating reputation
which for more than fifty years | have regarded
as my most valued possession.
! am sir, very respectfully your obj sorvt.,
K. +. WIruEIs. u. s. Consul.
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ONE OF the many ridiculous things con-
nected with the State debt is the praise
that Il bestowed in some sections of the
State upon certain members of the legisla.
ture for voting against some of the repudia-
ton measures introduced in that body at its
late session, though the very same members
voted for adhering to ali the repudiating
provisions of the repudiating Riddleberger
bill, and that, too, though in doing so they
also voted to set defiance the mandates OF
the q. S. Supreme Court.
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ALEX ANDRIA-.
TUESDAY EVENING, MAY "a.

THIS Is free and equal country: and any
one man in it has the same rights and priv
ileges that any other man has. A man
with q thousand greenbacks, or gold or sill
YER dollars, has the same right TO trade up
on them as one with thousand bushels oil
wheat, thousand yards OF cotton, or
THOUSAND pounds of butter, and the attempt
to restrict his profit on those dollars by
limiting his rates OF interest is an UNJUST az
II is futile. Indeed experience has demon
strated the fact that the practical enec0 OF
usury laws, instead of benetiting borrowers,
ia to increase their troubles. 1t Is, anu Oh
necessity must be, so with all other attempts
to restrain the liberty of free men to make
individual contracts, or to make them con"
form their personal habits to those OF other
people. Hence none of the many laws
which demagogues persuade thetemperanee
and leboring people are enacted Tor their
especial benefit, results in any practical
good.
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WASHINGTON, ID. C., Feb. 2S, 1887.
My Dear Son: On receipt of your letter at
once entered upon an investigation of the
Critics article. 1t was hard piece of bus.
ness to coral.ar editor and reporter for a
newspaper, and I was compelled 10 get
them singly. I send you letter addressed
to me by Winfield Larner, the reporter, and
one froIs Mr.. Sylvester, the editor, adj
dressed to Mr.. Withers. After sitting the
matter it is clear there has been great
tempest 10 q teapot with the usual result of
nobody hurt. If Winfield really obtained
his data from any letter of yours, it was
from an old letter dated at Yokohama,
Japan, in May 1886 in which you said sbont
the middle of your letter that you had been
stopped to see about matter in relation to
q sailor who was lily treated, and in which
you condemned the laws more than the
Consuls; stating the circumstances, and
wound up by saying that you had heard that
as bad state of affairs existed at Hong
Kong, and Mosby had been severely repri-
manded by judge or some court official.
Wiz sid must have COMPOUNDED the whole
matter, ard located it at Hong Kong.
Mr.. Withers was as learn, here about
the time the article appeared, September
10, 1885, and WAS up before the Senate, per-
haps for confirmation as Consul at Hong
Kong, and thus got matters mixed. Mr..
Sylyester's letter is full and to the point
He wants you to make a copy of letter aud
forward the original to Mr.. Witbers.
Your father, JOHN T. CLEMENTS.
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Now THAT the President has announced
his intention of throwing open to settlers
one hundred million acres of land hereto
fore held by the land grant railroads, 1t Is
hoped Mr.. George will give his tongue and
the private land owners in this country
rest, as not only each one Of the sixty thou
sand men who voted with him last fall that
land should be confiscated without compen'
sation to it's owners, but every body else
who wants farm TO live upon, can now
get one hundred and sixty acres of really
good land at merely nominal price, and
should therefore be content to let people
who have worked hard and lived econom.
icaly in order TO buy land further east hold
theirs 10 peace and security.
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GEN. RosEcRANs, President Clevelands
registrar of the Treasury, who would not
allow Mr. Wallace. Virginia ex Confeder
ate. to hold an Office in his bureau, for the
assigned reason that he did not like to be
surrounded by "rebels," has seut contri-
button to fund to be raised by DR.. Nc
Glynn, who believes ia liking killing" and
in the oonfscation of all land without COM
pepsation to the owners. The most remark
able thing about this latest remarkable act
of "Rosey's" is that while he processes TO be
q Catholic, DR.. McGlynn ridicu'es the Pope
and sets bis commands at open deGance.
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IT WOULD be we'll enough for the people
of this city who have other things than
politics to think about, if they would not
forget that municipal election will be held
here day after to morrow, and if they would
also remember that the character of city Is
Judged away from it by that of its officers,
and that nothing is more calculated to re-
tard the approach of capital and reputable
people TO city. and the commencement OF
business enterprises there, than the impress
sion that it's municipal government is not
in the hands OF wise, conservative and efficient
men. If every right thinking man in Alex
andria would only take the little trouble re-
ouired to cast ballot at tho municipal
elections, the condition of the city would be
imp, owed, and every bcdy in it be bene'
flied.
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UNITED STATES CONSULATE,

No. $40. UNITED STATES CONSULATE,
HoYG KONG, April 15 ~S7.
Mr.. II. Syresfer cdjtor Critic, Washington, y. e.,
Sir / have Just received your letter of the 18th
February, through Ensign Clements, U. S. N, to-
gcther with Mr.. Larner's explanation of The very
extraordinary circumstances attending the publ
cation of the injurious charges against my person.
al and official character which appeared in the
Critic OF the 10th September last. Your frank
expressions of regret and proler 10 make such
correction Of the misrepresentation ~ may de-
sire have decided me to asG the publication in
your paper of the whole correspondence growing
ont of the matter. copies of which accompany this
letter. 1 am, sir, very respectfully, your obcdient
servant, K. d. WIT1IERs U. $. Consul
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Tragedy.

New ORLEANS, May pa dispatch
from Paqutmine TO the PicayAae says: ga
tragedy occurred near Bayou Gould yester-
day morning. Ben Bates quarreled with
his nephew, Joe Bates, about family mat.
tiers, and shot him dead. Peter Bates, ia
Their of Joe, then shot his brother Ben,
wcunding him mortally. Peter Bates was
arrested. All have resided in this parish
for some time"
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Marshal Shot.

GEORGETOWN, O., May 24.--Marshal Ell.
Whitaker was shot on the street, while
walking with his wife near his house, by
Henry b. Campbell and dangerously
wounded in his right arm and side. Camp
bell used Springfield rihs. He had been
arrested several times by the marshal, and
only the day before the marshal had inter-
vened TO stop Campbell's disorderly con-
duet at his own house. Campbell gave him.
salfup.
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Killed by lightning.

DEXTER, Mo-, May 24.-While returning
from prayer meeting near Leora Sunday
night, James L. Butler was struck by light
ming and instantly killed and Robert Mccain
was paralyzed and is in a critical condition.
The son of Michael Welsh was found dead
beside a fence on Calvin Hicks's farm, near
Whitehall, Ill. He was crossing wheat
field from a base ball game wher he was
struck By lightning.
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Found Guilty.

WILMINGTON, N. O., May 24-Gtaui
Best, the negro who killed three of b. ION
panions and wounded two others at one
shot short time since, was found guilty OF
murder in The frs; degree in the Criminal
court 10 day. AT the time of The shooting
;hero waa a general impression that it was
the result of caroIeasneSs. Best is seventeen
wears old
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THE Color L1NE-The Potomac Corps No. ?,
of the Womens Relief Corps, held an excited
meeting at Grand Army Hail. Washington, last
night The hundred and fifty ladies present were
excited because the corps had not been officially
invited by the Department of the Potomac of the
Grand Army of the Republic to take part in the
Decoration Day services. The whole stustion
vas explained by one of the ladies, who had taken
a prominent part in the meeting. You sse, We
have only one relief corps, whilc the colored
women have two, aud they insisted on being rep
sented in the parade if were That made the
trouble. The Grand Army comrades were all
worked up over it aud devised numerous imprac-
ticabie ways out of the disagreeable dilemma. But
there was no help for it. ii We We're furnished
carriages the colored women wanted them too
and what is more they wanted just rs many as
we would have had Well, finally, the only
way out of the difficulty. tue Grand Army will
tender no carriages at ali To the ladies OF the Re
lief Association but will invite their young lady
friends instead"
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Eile French. Crisis.

PARIS, May 2l.-Iu view of the failure Of
all the combinations to effect settlement
Of the ministerial question, President Grevy
has recalled M. Floquet AID appealed to his
patriotism to form Cabinet. NJ. Floquet
asked for n hours to consider the matter.
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Dcafl, Ola Minister.

WINCHESTER, Va, May 24.-The Rev
John Pirkey aged 20 years, for forty years
minister of the Christian Church and pastor
of a church in this city died this morning at
his residence. He was universally loved
By his people throughout Virginia.
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Enclosures in above.

W AShINHTUNl TtU. -OI IooI,
Sir: In reply to your personal inquiry
would say that | regret very much that
some of the statements should have been
construed in recent article written by me
for the Critic as reflection upon Consul
Withers at Hong Kong. AS matter of
fact my informant who showed me q letter
from the Asiatic Station. stated that certain
abuses existed at Yokohama which should
be remedied, and unintentionally l wrote it
Hong Kong. Ensign Clements did not give
me my information, but the person from
whom l received it esteemed reliable and
his news authentic.
Very respectfully,
w. S. LARNER, 1.-THE CRITIC
To J. Z. Clements, esq, Washington, D. C.
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MACON, Mo-. March Sd, 1887.

Hon. Il. E. WthcrS, Q. s. Consul, Hong
Kong:
Sir: l wrote the enclosed Immediately
upon receipt of your letter, but concluded to
await the result Of my fathers investigation
in Washington before mailing it. am now
able TO give you the whole matter so far as
| know anything about it. enclose letters
from my father, from the editor of the Critic
and from the reporter as well as my own
letter of the 18th OF February. 1t appears
that Mr.. Larner, relative of mine, is re-
porter for the Critic As l had not heard
from him since 1882 / was not aware of that
fact when wrote on thelSth February.
Respectfully,
A. B. CLEMENTS,
Ensign U. S. Navy.
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Consul Withers and the Critic"
Hone KONG, April Is, 1887.

To The editor of the Alexandria Gazette:
Dear Sir-When in Washington about
the first of November, 1886, called at the
office of the Critic to learn upon whose au-
thority the slanderous charges against me
were given to the public in the Critic of tue
10th September. The editor informed me
that they were furnished by an officer of the
q. s. Navy, whose name he would procure
and send me. Subsequently the following
correspondence took place.
Yours truly, n. Il WlTHERs.
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No. 500. UNITED STATES CONSULATE.
To, 1897

KONG KONG, Jan. II, 1887.
Mr. Abner B. Clements, q. S. Nary:
Sir-On the 10th of September last an ar
ticle appeared in the Washington Critic,
containing very unjust and slanderous
structure on my personal and official conduct
and character. The editor of that paper,
when called on for authority on which the
publication was based, furnished your name
As you have doubtless seen the publication
alluded to, have the honor to request, at
your earliest convenience, either an ayowal
of your own responsibility for the charges
against me, or retraclion.
l deem it proper to state that the delay IN
forwarding this communication was caused
by the unavoidable consumption of time in
communicating with the editor of the Critic
and procuring from him the name of the
author of the charges. This was received
by the last steamer from America. [ am
sir, &c. r. E. WITHERs, q. S. Consul.
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Police Court Blown Up.

LONDON, May pa dynamite bomb was
exploded under the police court at Hebburn,
Durham county, last night partially des.
troying the building. The outrage is attri.
buted to strikers.
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Reported Attempt 10 Kill the Gar

VIENNA, May 81 The Tagblatt has re-
ceived telegram from Odessa stating that
the Car returned TO st. Petersburg from
the Don Cossacks country three days earlier
than ho intended to. This was due, the
dispatch says. TO an attempt made by q
student to kill him on Wednesday night,
during tho festivities at Novo Tcherkask
by firing at him as be rode by in carriage.
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DIED.

This morning, at his home, at the corner of
Duke and feyton streets. the Stone bridge.
TOWNSEND BAGGETT. aged 70 years, ii
months and u days. Ear The funeral will take
place Tomorrow "Wednesday at p M, from his
late residence Friends and acquaintance are
invited to attend.
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NEWS OF THE DAY

Princess Victoria, OF Battenberg, grand
daughter of Queen Victoria, has gastric
| fever.
a committee began counting the money
in the Treasury yesterday. 1t will take
two months.
For the past nine months of the current
llscal year, the imports have increased
S3S 600 900, and the exports $62, 100000.
The Supreme Court of Kansas has de.
clded that married woman need not take
her husbands name unless she elects to do
SO.
Capt. Emerson Rokes, one OF the most
enterprising ship.owners in Baltimore, died
suddenly last night at his residence in that
city.
The health authorities of Jacksonville
Fla, have been informed recently of the APP
pearance of what is thought TO be sporsd
lc case of yellow fever at Key West.
Secretary Lamar has issued rule upon
land grant railroads to show cause why
orders of withdrawal of lands within their
idemnity limits should not be revoked.
Although England has already begun to
celebrate the jubilee of the Queens acces-
sion, the full half century of her reign will
not be completed uCtil the Goth Of June.
The sale of the French crown jewels was
concluded yesterday. The chief lot, dia'
mond head dress, was sold in 16 pieces for
$3.50 900 francs. The proceeds from tho
nine days Gales amounted to 6864 900
francs.
A Berlin telegram TO the Newe Freie Press
of Vienna says that the Crown Prince Fred
erck William yesterday underwent SO.
rlons operation for cancer in the throat, but
no Intelligence has been received in London
confirming this report
Lord Colin Campbell, who recently
brought suit against his wife for d.
vorce, has been declared bankrupt on
petition of the Duke of Marlborough,
who Was co deft ndant in the divorce suit,
and who LOGGED petition in the bank
rnptcy court against Lord Colin COR his
costs.
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If bilious, or suffering from impurity of
blood, or weak lungs, and fear of consump-
ton iscrofulous disease of the lungsl, take
DR.. Piorce's Golden Medical Discovery"
and 1t will cure you. By druggists.
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WASHINGTON CRITIC.

H. Kilbourn, Prcs't. b. H. sylvester, Ed dn
Hon. Robert e. WitherS, u. s. Consul, Hong
Kong, China:
Dear Colonel-The name OF The ofilcer ID
Clements, as l am informed, and he was re-
Gently on the Alert. Pardon me Tor having
overlooked the matter. Very truly,
r. II. SYLVESTER, Ed. Critic.
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THE CALLED session of the Legislature
adjourned to day. Better for the State and
better for the democratic party had it never
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TIE TITLE Of Dr. Nelson's article noticed in
yesterdays dAzEr1E is shall the Protestant
Episcopal Church change its nalne:'
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THE WASHINGTON CRITIC.
WASHINGTON, D. c.. Feb. IS, 1887.
Hon. Robert L. Fithers, United States Con
sal at Hong Kong, China.
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The Legislature endorsed the. s.s
reports -"-''-- - MAKERS.
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animated appearance. The Alexandria
Light Infantry and the ST.. Johns Cadets
are comfortably quartered and seem to be
having fine time. The former company